Groupon Launches Their Own Free BlackBerry App

Groupon has taken on a life of its own since it launched. The service has created and defined its own style of online store and group discount service which has been hugely successful in over 130 cities. They have recently launched a BlackBerry App during the holidays which I just downloaded and it looks pretty impressive. The UI is a bit clunky but it does aim to remove the need to print Groupons which is nice.

You can pick up the free Groupon app in App World at this link. The only downside of the app is that it is only available for OS 5.0+ devices (US and Canada) and it is also limited to a subset of the BlackBerry devices. Let us know what you think of it! via BBCool

One thing that I would look out for is whether or not the Groupon-featured store will accept a mobile coupon. For example, I bought a bunch of The Works car washes as stocking stuffers and it specifically says on the printed Groupon that “coupons will not be accepted from phones” (probably like what is pictured in image 3 shown above).

I hope with the advent and further development of this Groupon app, they will change that fine print and stipulation.

don’t relaly see the need for this if you subscribe to their daily emails for your city. a more useful app would be one that aggregates all the daily deal websites (teambuy, kahoot, etc) into one app for easy viewing.

I finally did the dead and signed up for Groupon a couple weeks back. I live about 25 miles outside a major city. Their daily deals so far haven’t been very relevant out this way. i’ll try the app though.

What would be really useful is if the app used location awareness to show me Groupon deals close by when I’m on the road.